Tom Short

About Tom Short

Tom is the lead Sport and Exercise Performance Consultant at Leading Edge Performance. A sport and exercise psychologist-in-training, he takes a key interest in the mindset behind sports performers. This includes the development of a team, leadership, motivation and overcoming performance pressure. When not with clients, Tom plays cricket for a local team, and away from the pitch he is studying for his PhD in Performance and Management Psychology within sport.

Fans and the Home Advantage

By now, no matter what sport you participate in, you’ll [...]

By Tom Short|2021-04-21T12:45:57+01:00April 23, 2021|Performance, Sport|0 Comments

What Gets Them Out of Bed on a Morning?

A natural part of our career development is managing expectations [...]

By Tom Short|2021-04-13T15:40:36+01:00April 13, 2021|Development, Performance, Sport|0 Comments

Developing a Winning Mindset

I recently had the pleasure of delivering a series of [...]

By Tom Short|2021-04-13T15:23:43+01:00March 29, 2021|Development, Elite, Performance, Sport|0 Comments

Returning to Sport – Anxiety

Sport is coming back! Now I said this last year [...]

By Tom Short|2021-04-13T15:21:52+01:00March 15, 2021|Anxiety, Performance, Sport|0 Comments

Empathy: A Coach’s Best Friend?

I recently came across an article on Sky Sports, entitled: [...]

By Tom Short|2021-04-13T15:19:16+01:00February 1, 2021|Elite, Performance, Sport|0 Comments

What is… Perfectionism?

Perfectionism. The tendency to complete a task to such a [...]

By Tom Short|2021-05-14T15:24:53+01:00January 19, 2021|Performance, Sport, What Is...|0 Comments

Controlling the Controllables

Sport has the unique ability to provide us with [...]

By Tom Short|2021-04-13T15:19:52+01:00December 21, 2020|Elite, Performance, Sport|0 Comments